The world's largest peace torch relay.

Bulgaria
Participants:
7,000,000+
Miles run:
395,000+
Countries:
155
Since:
1987

The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run is a global relay seeking to inspire the creation of a more peaceful world. As a symbol of peace and harmony, runners carry a flaming torch, passing it from hand to hand, heart to heart.

Join us for our 2025 route - around the North Island from the tip of the Coromandel to the golden sands of the Bay of Plenty, and through heartland communities and finishing in the fiery geothermal wonderland, Rotorua.

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What people say

In photographs of the Run I see people of different ages taking part...when we look at their smiling faces, we believe that a happy future is destined for our world.

President Mikhail Gorbachev

Nobel Peace Laureate

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O dreamers of peace, come.
Let us walk together.

O lovers of peace, come.
Let us run together.

O servers of peace, come.
Let us grow together.

Sri Chinmoy
Peace Run founder

On April 10, 2014, this poem was translated and read out in 206 languages, setting a Guinness World Record.

Holding the Torch

and making a wish for a better world.